Food
Local food
GI produce, ICH cooking and street dishes.
City calling cards
Qingyuan chicken / white-cut chicken
Qingyuan chicken is a national GI; white-cut chicken cookery is provincial ICH. The city’s first food face.
Qingyuan-wide; Qingcheng
Wuzong goose / goose-hen claypot
Wuzong goose is a Qingyuan national GI. Slow-braised goose, goose-hen claypot and daoqieci in goose broth are the public dish layer.
Qingyuan-wide
Qingyuan slim-grain rice
Qingyuan slim-grain rice is one of the municipal “five hundred-billion” farm brands, with Qingyuan chicken, Yingde black tea, ma bamboo shoot and Lianzhou choy sum. Lianshan rice is the GI cultivar layer.
Qingyuan-wide; Lianshan
Slow-braised goose
Qingyuan slow-braised goose is municipal ICH. Straw or wood fire slowly braises Wuzong goose — a public goose face, separate from goose-hen claypot.
Qingcheng
Street breakfast
Zhouxin offal congee
Qingcheng Zhouxin offal congee, the Cantonese breakfast named in tourism pages.
Qingcheng
Zhouxin roast pork
Zhouxin roast pork is known for crackling and layered fat. Locals often take it with sugar, at the same table as the congee.
Qingcheng
Shantang pig-blood soup
Shantang pig-blood soup of Qingxin, a breakfast and afternoon-tea face on Qingyuan tourism food pages.
Qingxin
Street rice foods
Wozai rice rolls
Yuantan wok-basket rice rolls steam batter in a bamboo basket — Qingyuan’s rice-roll. Municipal ICH.
Qingcheng
Daoqieci rice cakes
Glutinous strips cut from steamed batter and cooked in goose broth. Qingyuan Release lists it as a Cantonese–Hakka breakfast.
Qingcheng
Fenjiao dumplings
Qingcheng triangular rice-wrapper snack, a Nanmen–Xiaguo street memory.
Qingcheng
Street noodles
Bamboo-press wonton noodles
Qingcheng Chen Huaji bamboo-press wonton noodles. Municipal ICH.
Qingcheng
Lianzhou beef offal stew
Lianzhou street beef-offal stew. Qingyuan Release and Lianzhou tourism pages name it a night-snack face; the broth runs hot.
Lianzhou
Yangshan beef offal
Yangshan street beef-offal stew. Qingyuan Release lists it with Lianzhou offal as a local afternoon-tea face. Xiaojiang offal is often named with it.
Yangshan
Chicken dishes
Shitan soy-sauce chicken
Qingxin Shitan soy-sauce chicken. Municipal ICH, a public way of eating Qingyuan chicken besides white-cut.
Qingxin
Zhouxin roast chicken
Zhouxin hanging roast chicken. Qingcheng government pages list it with roast pig and congee as Zhouxin foods. Kiln-slow; eat it hot.
Qingcheng
River catch
Highland staples
Lianzhou snacks
Cured meats
Dongbei cured meats
Dongbei cured meat is a national GI, with a municipal making craft. A three-century Lianzhou Dongbei produce.
Lianzhou
Shantang cured meat
Shantang cured meat of Qingxin — pork, sausage and duck, autumn-dried, salty-sweet with wine. Municipal 2nd-batch ICH. Separate from Dongbei cured meat.
Qingxin
Vegetables and fruit
Lianzhou choy sum
Lianzhou choy sum, a national GI and one of Qingyuan’s five hundred-billion farm industries. Sweeter after frost; public dishes include blanched, garlic, and choy-sum steamed spare ribs.
Lianzhou
Zhushan kudzu
Qingyuan Zhushan kudzu, a national GI, known around Tangtang, Fogang.
Qingyuan-wide
Xiniu ma bamboo shoot
Yingde Xiniu ma bamboo shoot is a national GI and one of Qingyuan’s five hundred-billion farm industries. Fresh shoots and processed shoots are viewed apart.
Yingde
Luokeng bamboo shoot
Luokeng bamboo shoot of Sankeng, Qingxin — sweet fresh shoots, often braised with roast pork. Binjiang sun-dried shoot making is municipal ICH, with Luo Yikeng as the type site.
Qingxin
Yangshan Chinese yam
Yangshan Chinese yam, a national GI, on the Beijiang 63 foods list.
Yangshan
Qingxin rock-sugar tangerine
Qingxin rock-sugar tangerine, a national GI, often on Qingyuan’s public top-produce lists and the Beijiang 63 foods fruit group.
Qingxin
Lianzhou crystal pear
Lianzhou crystal pear, a national GI, often listed with Lianzhou choy sum on produce pages and the Beijiang 63 foods fruit group.
Lianzhou
Liannan seedless lemon
Liannan seedless lemon, a national GI, on the Beijiang 63 foods fruit group.
Liannan